Swing Your Lady (Warner Bros.) (1938)

; (Advance) A Penny-Saver Is New Starlet Penny Singleton There is a little tan book that Penny Singleton always carries with her. It is unpretentious and it is not a diary. It is her budget book, in which she lives for tomorrow as well as today. She proudly showed the book during the filming of “Swing Your Lady,” the Warner Bros. comedy in which she is playing opposite Humphrey Bogart, and explained she has kept it for years. A page is devoted to each week’s expenditures and she always plans what she will do with her check for three weeks in advance. So much here, so much there, so much into savings and—$15 per week for minor weekly expenses. “But pretty soon all those dollars won’t be paid out,” she says, seriously. “Most of them will be going into savings.” A very sensible young miss is Miss Singleton, who won fame in numerous Broadway musical hits, retired from professional life, and then was induced to enter pictures in the second feminine leading role in “After th Thin Man.” That one role, followed by the important assignment to “Swing Your Lady,” presages another brilliant career in pictures. She will be seen next week at the Strand Theatre. Also featured in the east are Louise Fazenda, Nat Pendleton, Frank McHugh and Allen Jenkins. Ray Enright directed. (Advance) Hillbilly Trio Featured In Film Cicero (Frank) Weaver of the famous Weaver Brothers and Elviry, the original hillbillies and bigtime vaudeville headliners for 25 years, made his professional debut at the age of 16 with the Texas Steer Quartette. The quartette was a feature of the Jack Raymond Stock Company and traveled for years through Missouri and the South. Later Cicero teamed with his brother Leon, known on the stage as Abner, to form the act which won them fame. Cicero and Abner introduced the musical saw and have affidavits to prove it. To Cicero also goes the credit for originating instruments which they have popularized and which they play in “Swing Your Lady,” coming to the Strand. Mat 114—15c NEW LOVE TEAM — Humphrey Bogart turns from villainy to romance with his new screen sweetheart Penny Singleton, in “Swing Your Lady,” the comedy coming to the Strand. MOUNTAIN SWINGAROO—Penny Singleton and Sammy White introduce tomorrow’s dance craze in “Swing Your Lady,” the mountain musical comedy which opens at the Strand Theatre next Friday. (Advance) Weaver Brothers Portray Hillbillies As They Really Are There is such a thing as retribution. People who cast bread upon the waters and have it returned to them as cake sometimes not only have to pay through the nose but through the ears as well. At least that has been the experience of Abner (Leon) Weaver of the “Weaver Brothers and Elviry.” Ab Mat 102—15c ner was reflecting on the vagaries of life at Warner Bros. studio where he, his brother Cicero, and Elviry were playing featured roles in “Swing Your Lady,” the comedy w'*h music which will come to the Strand Theatre next week. Twenty-five years ago the Weavers int:oduced the curious, lovable and little known people of the Ozarks to the world. They were the original hillbillies. Today professional hillbillies have become so plentiful that Abner cannot get enough men to work his dairy farm back in Missouri! “Tssue a call for hillbillies,” said Abner, “and men ermed with mouth organs and prepared to yodel will arrive in hundreds. But they’re too busy following their careers on the radio to be bothered working as farm hands. Farmers all through our section are complaining about it. “Folks are blaming us for it, saying we started it all. Well, we’ve got a complaint to make, too. During the 25 years we’ve been depicting hillbillies we’ve been doing right by our neighbors, portraying them and ourselves just as we are. “A lot of the hillbilly music you hear on the radio and the types portrayed aren’t true at all. The music we’ve used in our act is the music loved by our Ozark mountain folk and we wouldn’t think of resorting to yodelling in singing the songs. “Modern progress can never entirely change our country. We have Cicero Weaver Mat 105—15c characters as lovable and unusual as anything that could be imagined by a writer of fiction. Such as Old Joe, the human thermometer, whose sage witticisms make the round of the country. Joe sits on the porch of a crossroads store with his feet on the railing and folks can tell how hot it is by looking at him for as the thermometer goes up Joe’s feet go higher. “And the colloquialisms will never die out. In our act Elviry is asked what she would like to do and she says ‘If I have my druthers [ll sing.’ She didn’t invent ‘druthers’— it is a favorite saying of one of our local characters. “Folks back home are proud of their country and delighted when it is faithfully represented in a story or on the screen. It was there that Harold Bell Wright placed the locale of “The Little Shepherd of the Hills” and other stories. “T don’t know, though, whether the folks will ever quite forgive us for being the innocent cause of good farmhands becoming professional hillbillies.” (Box Featurette) ELVIRY SAYS: Hollywood, Calif. . . . There is some that allows that a hound dog is a body’s best fren’ an’ I dasn’t even say a word agin’ it. Nuthin’ better’n a dog fer treein’ a Possum. But I recolleck Granpappy Squiffy wouldn’t have no truck with no dog. Fer he had a pet hen, Cleopatry. Some sez hens is stupid as a wood tick. But not Cleo. Why that fowl followed Granpa all over the house. One week she done a thing that made Granny the proudest critter on Goosenibble Ridge. All by herself she laid seven eggs in five days so’s she could have her week-ends for her own and follow us to see our pitcher “Swing Your Lady.” [8] (Advance) Mountain Swing Introduced In Hillbilly Movie More than 500 men and women extras were interviewed by Dance Director Bobby Connolly to select 150 to participate in the hillbilly dance sequence he staged for Warner Bros.’ “Swing Your Lady,” the comedy with music that opens at the Strand Theatre next Friday. A feature of this sequence is an old-fashioned square dance as performed by the natives of the Ozarks. Men and women, young and old, beautiful and not so beautiful, but all representing a cross section of Missouri mountain life, participated. Penny Singleton and Sammy White, of New York stage and “Show Boat” fame, introduce the “Mountain Swingaroo,” a new dance. The dance, one which will probably gain great popularity with the young folks, is a wedding of the old-time square dances with the modern swing steps. They do it against a background of music supplied by a mixed chorus of more than 100 voices. “Conversation trumpets” are also a feature of the dance. Several thousand extras were used in street scenes and wrestling match sequences of “Swing Your Lady,” which was directed by Ray Enright and features Humphrey Bogart, Nat Pendleton, Louise Fazenda, Penny Singleton, Daniel Boone Savage, Frank McHugh and Allen Jenkins. (Advance ) Allen Jenkins’ New Fish Story Allen Jenkins, Warner Bros. comedian, has made a color movie of the abalone fishing industry that is so excellent various persons are attempting to buy it for national distribution to schools and churches. Jenkins made the picture with a Miniature camera while on a four weeks’ vacation at Morrow Bay near San Luis Obispo prior to starting his eurrent role in “Swing Your Lady,” the comedy coming Friday to the Strand Theatre. Every detail of the industry is presented in the more than 850 feet of 16 mm. film’ in the movie. Included are fascinating scenes on the abalone boat, showing the divers going over the side for their stay of two hours and more. Underwater scenes, showing the abalone in its natural habitat are said to be among the most beautiful ever shown on the screen. ‘Mat 108—15¢ BELLE OF THE OZARKS is Louise Fazenda who has her grandest comedy role as the lady blacksmith in “Swing Your Lady,” the movie versior of the Broadway stage hit. er a a een ee ne ee em Ee